The One With the Rogue and the Reader: The One With the Wanton Woman, #1

By Eliana Piers

She's a spinster. He's just found out that he's her guardian. Will their childhood friendship turn to love?

 

Juliet likes books, ficuses, and spinsterhood. In that order. She's planning a future of philosophical discussions and fencing with like-minded women. What she's not planning is to find out that her childhood friend-turned-adonis has somehow been appointed her guardian for the next year until she receives her inheritance.

 

Ryker, a lost rogue, would like nothing better than to ignore any present truths in his life. He's not ready to face anything with substance. Especially if that substance is an alluring women who turns out to be his ward.

 

Can a secret letter bring the rogue and the reader together at last?

Read The One With the Rogue and the Reader if you love guardian-ward, forbidden love vibes, and sweet and spicy reads.  

The One With the Rogue and the Reader is the first standalone novella in the steamy regency romance series, The One With the Wanton Woman:

1. The One With the Rogue and the Reader
2. The One With the Duke's Curvy Bride (coming soon!)
3. The One With the Duke, a Scandal, and a Mistletoe (coming this Christmas!)

 

*This book was originally published in a shorter version in the Love for Maui Anthology as The Rogue and the Reader.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Self-Published
• Release date: May 14, 2024
• ISBN: 9781998281404

Eliana Piers

What makes people fall in love? Why do two people end up together? Every love story is unique, and I love love.

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The One With the Rogue and the Reader is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. 

Copyright © 2024 by Eliana Piers

All rights reserved.

Originally published as The Rogue and the Reader in Love for Maui anthology

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ISBN E-Book ISBN 978-1-998281-40-4

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Contents

Author's Note

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Next in Series: The Duke's Curvy Bride

Stay Connected

Thank You

About the Author

Also By Eliana Piers

Eliana Piers Reading Order

Series Overlap

Couples Timeline

Read More: The Good Dukes

Read More: Dukes for Christmas

Author's Note

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Hello Beautiful Reader, 

Welcome to the Beau Monde. Most, if not all, of my books are part of an interconnected world with the Good Dukes, where it all started. This series, The One With the Wanton Woman follows a scandalous impact on a several women. Each couple somehow connects to a character in the Good Dukes, yet each book can be read as a standalone.

If you like SHORT, SWEET & SPICY, you are in for a treat.

I love to write funny, easy, breezy stories where the characters learn things about themselves and the world around them, all the while continuing to reach for hope, joy, and above all, LOVE.  

Love always wins. Love never fails. 

You will always read a happy ending in my stories. 

I write to have fun, and so I make stories fit into a historical context, but I often take leeway with history. SO, if you are looking for a 100% accurate depiction of historical language and settings, please put this book down. You will be disappointed. And I don’t want that. You don’t want that. Neither of us wants you to be disappointed. Let’s just be happy. The world is a hard enough place as it is. 

IF, however, you don’t mind to sacrifice some historical truths in the name of LOVE and HUMOR, AND you want to read about some HOT men falling head over heels in love with some INTELLIGENT, STRONG, INDEPENDENT women, then read on, dear reader.

Much love, 

Eliana Piers

Chapter 1

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1816, England

IT WAS EASY TO hide beside the ficus. That was what Juliet always did at balls. Rarely did anyone notice. The plants were large and decorative, but inconspicuous. If she wore green, she fit right in. And plants demanded nothing from her. If she had sat with the wallflowers, even then she might have had to engage in some conversation. Perhaps some gossip. Or equally horrifying, idle chatter about needlework.

No, hiding was the easy part. The real challenge, if she wanted to take it on, was to try and smuggle a book in her pocket to read for each ball. That sounded delightful. Only the decision of which book to bring was a greater challenge. And perhaps which bookmark to use. That was equally challenging since losing her favorite one years ago.

Juliet scanned the ballroom crowded with beautiful women and men in their finest attire. Looking down at her simple white gown (she had forgotten to wear green this evening), she felt out of place. An outlier. Technically, this was her first season, even though she was four-and-twenty. But she couldn’t have come out any earlier, nor did she want to, because when her father, the Earl of Chesterson, passed away just after her eighteenth birthday, nothing could prompt Juliet away from the house and her books.

She could spend all day reading. Moving from one room to the next every few hours. Exchanging genres. She was often reading up to four books at a time. A lurid novel, something in philosophy, something old to be comforting, and something new to spark